Your House Will Pay
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Grace Park and Shawn Mathews share a city - Los Angeles - but seemingly little else. Coming from...
Orphans of the Carnival
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The dazzling new novel, evoking the strange and thrilling world of the Victorian carnival, from the...
The Technologists
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Boston, 1868. The Civil War may be over but a new war has begun, one between past and present,...
The Prisoner of Heaven
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Barcelona, 1957. It is Christmas, and Daniel Sempere and his wife Bea have much to celebrate. They...
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A beautiful and contemporary retelling of Colin Thiele's classic Australian tale. 'Storm Boy' has...
The Lessons of History
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In this illuminating and thoughtful book, Will and Ariel Durant have succeeded in distilling for the...
Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1)
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the cold. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed...
Blazing Minds (92 KP) rated The Nun (2018) in Movies
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In Romania, a young nun takes her own life, to find out why she did this a priest with his own haunted past is sent to the cloistered abbey to uncover the order’s unholy secret, their investigation not only has their lives at risk but also their faith and their souls as they confront The Nun, a malevolent evil that has taken o the form the demonic nun that we saw in The Conjuring 2, it’s now a battle of good against evil, light against dark as the abbey becomes a supernatural battleground of the living and damned.
Whatchareadin (174 KP) rated Local Girls in Books
May 10, 2018
From the beginning of the book, we know that someone is going to die. And now I am just trying to figure out the when and how. The book flips between present day and the past when the group of three girls used to be a foursome.
Something about this book that I liked is that you get to see how the girl get to this point in their life. I liked the flashbacks and it transported me back to my high school days. I could see me and my friends in this same situation although my friends and I were not quite as wild as these girls.
One part that really struck me was a reference to Virginia Woolf and her suicide note. In the note she says, "I don't think any two people could have been happier than we have been." The character reading this mentions that this phrase is said twice in her short suicide note. I find it ironic that the author mentions a phrase twice in this book, "Only boring people get bored." I think deep down these girls were bored, but used the antics they pulled help to add some excitement to their lives. Another interesting thing about this book, is that we are never really introduced to the narrator. I can only recall her name being mentioned twice in the book.
**I received an uncorrected proof of this book through Goodreads Giveaways and this review is based on that copy.**